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"Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent."
— Joe Sparano
Graphic Designer (Hybrid in D.C.)
Us Green Building Council • Washington, United States of America 🇺🇸
As a Graphic Designer, you will create engaging digital designs and support internal stakeholders to elevate visual communications. You will also develop logo designs, design internal presentation templates, and layout reports while ensuring brand consistency.
Responsibilities
- Create engaging digital designs: Develop high-impact visual assets for web, social media, email, and other digital channels. Ensure designs are optimized for various platforms and screen sizes.
- Environmental design and event support: Ability to apply branding and design concepts across various environmental touchpoints, creating cohesive event experiences.
- Develop logo designs and provide brand strategy: Understand how to conduct research, analyze a brand's landscape, and distill a company's core essence into a cohesive visual language. Develop logo designs that are memorable, scalable, and instantly recognizable, and ensure our brands can build lasting equity.
- Support social media content: Design on-brand social media graphics, videos, and other visual elements. Collaborate with the communications team to create content that resonates with the target audience.
- Design internal presentation templates: Craft visually appealing and consistent presentation templates for use across the organization. Ensure templates adhere to brand guidelines and promote clear, professional communication.
- Layout reports and publications: Design the layout and formatting for reports, white papers, case studies, and other multi-page documents. Incorporate effective data visualization techniques and maintain brand integrity.
- Research design trends and collaborate: Stay up-to-date on current design trends and best practices. Work cross-functionally with product, membership, events and other teams to develop innovative visual solutions that support broader business goals and maintain brand consistency.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of recent client-side experience
- Experience working at a multinational business with a diverse portfolio of products, services and programs
- Must have at least 4 years of professional experience using all three applications—Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign
- Experience using AI tools to support design work and design thinking
- Experience designing and maintaining brand consistency in a global products organization, or a fast-moving start-up, with deep understanding of how to design for various regions
- Bachelor’s, or master’s degree in graphic design, visual communications, or a closely related degree in the design field
- Proficient in Adobe Creative Cloud
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Proficient or experience with Canva
- Proficient with project management platform like Asana
- Experience implementing or guiding UX/UI best practices
- Knowledge of the print/publication process from design through delivery
- Ability to work well independently and as a member of a team
- Experience with digital asset management
Key Skills
- Strong conceptual and creative thinking: Ability to ideate innovative design solutions, translate abstract ideas into visual narratives, and bring creative vision to life.
- Strong eye for typography and layout: Excellent typographic skills, including font pairing, hierarchy, and overall page/screen layout. Can create clean, balanced, and visually engaging designs.
- Responsive design and optimization: Understand user experience principles and can design for optimal performance across various devices and screen sizes. Able to prepare assets for efficient delivery.
- Collaborative project management: Skills in juggling multiple design projects from start to finish, incorporating feedback, hitting deadlines, and working effectively with cross-functional teams.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- 401(k) with employer matching
- Professional development reimbursement
- Healthcare plan through Cigna that includes medical, dental, vision, and prescription drugs
- Generous paid time off (12 paid holidays, 9 paid personal sick days and based on career level either 2 to 3 weeks PTO), including operations closed for a full week between Christmas and New Year’s
- 6 weeks paid renewal leave after 7 years of continuous service
About Us Green Building Council
The U.S. Green Building Council is committed to transforming buildings and communities to advance human and environmental well-being. Our vision is that buildings and communities will regenerate and sustain the health and vitality of all life within a generation. Our mission is to transform the way buildings and communities are designed, built and operated, enabling an environmentally and socially responsible, healthy, and prosperous environment that improves the quality of life. We are a diverse group of builders and environmentalists, corporations and nonprofits, teachers and students, lawmakers and citizens. Today we are represented by thousands of member organizations and more than 200,000 LEED professionals that share the vision of a sustainable built environment for all within the next generation.
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